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Firefox 9 Comes with the Biggest UI Refresh Since Firefox 4

So they are basically making it look even MORE like Chrome. 🙄

I hope, unlike Chrome, they still allow users to modify the changes so those of us that actually like the way FF looks over Chrome can change it back.
 
The forward and home buttons are gone
Pinned App Tabs remove the navigation bar
A refreshed search box
A new download manager
A new default favicon
A new tab page
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These are significantly insignificant.
 
Well that is cool, i like that they are constantly trying to improve. also if you don't like it you can revert...
 
I want my Forward and Home buttons, along with Stop, Reload and Print .. I don't care if they are not shown in the basic UI as long as they can be put back by users who want them.
 
bruceb said:
I want my Forward and Home buttons, along with Stop, Reload and Print .. I don't care if they are not shown in the basic UI as long as they can be put back by users who want them.
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You got me to look. I don't have a fwd button. I don't know if I removed it, or Firefox did. I've been playing with controls over the last couple months or so, and I never really used to fwd button, so I may have ditched it. Anyway, when I hit customize, there's no fwd button available. Home is still in place on my url bar. I use that to spawn new tabs.
 
In other words, they'll break compatibility with a whole bunch of plugins all over again. Yay. That's only what... the fourth time this year?

Sorry Firefox dev team, but I already have Chrome installed. I don't need another Chrome lookalike as well.
 
6 just came out D:. Although, I've been on the pre beta channel a while now. Currently on 8.0a2. Still no changes from 4 that will effect the end users experience whatsoever. Basically, I'm on Firefox 4.0.5
 
lxskllr said:
You got me to look. I don't have a fwd button. I don't know if I removed it, or Firefox did. I've been playing with controls over the last couple months or so, and I never really used to fwd button, so I may have ditched it. Anyway, when I hit customize, there's no fwd button available. Home is still in place on my url bar. I use that to spawn new tabs.
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I'm presently running 9.01a1 Nightly and I have Back, Forward, Reload, Stop, and Home buttons in the Firefox UI.

I think I had to actually add them after I installed Nightly, but they are there now.
 
lxskllr said:
The official release is 6. 7-9 are in the various testing channels. I'm on 9a1 in the Nightly channel.
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Yeah. 6 is in the "Release" channel, 7 is in the "Beta" channel, 8 is ???, and 9 is in the "Nightly" channel.
 
goobernoodles said:
Firefox's versions numbers are growing at a exponent rate apparently. Good god.
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Its for all those dumb IE users that figure that version 9 of IE is clearly newer and superior to version 6 of Firefox. Seriously ...
I weep for the clueless who have no idea that there are alternative browsers to the blue 'E' that they got when they bought their new PC.
 
I heard some rumblings of getting rid of version numbers altogether. I'd be fine with that for the testing branches, but they should lock a version for long term support, and give it a version number. Do it like Debian, and have unstable, testing, and stable. Stable would be released annually, and the others would be an unversioned rolling release. Testing would get locked a month or 2 before stable's release, and it would then become stable barring any bugs. Rinse, repeat.
 
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